The 2006 midterms were a disaster of biblical proportions for the Bush administration and the Republican Party. They lost the House, the Senate, and a raft of governors’ mansions and state legislatures. It was much worse than the “shellacking” the Democrats took last November. And how did George W. Bush respond to the American people’s complete rejection of the Republican agenda? He doubled down on it.

FoxNews has a ‘brainroom’, where their employees apparently are able to indulge in their desire to eat brains.

Truly, it is a post-irony world for thee but not for me.

So, out of 10 names, and going all the way back to Marion Crackbarry in 1990 (Traficant, Ventura and Jefferson are not exactly current either), Rosen could only think of one non-South Carolina Republican with a scandal? Really? What about John Ensign’s affair with a staffer and subsequent attempt to pay off her husband? What about the Vice President’s Chief of Staff getting convicted of obstruction of justice? What about the baldfaced corruption of John Doolittle and Tom Delay?

But…but…Blumenthal!1!!

Truly, a scandal. Obama’s not going to honor our fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery, he’s going to honor our fallen soldiers at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.

Steve Benen highlights yet another example of KEEP YOUR GUBMINT HANDS OFF MY GUBMINT WELFARE syndrome.